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Science journalist Ehsan Masood provides an enlightening and in-depth exploration into an empire's golden age, its downfall and the numerous debates that surround it. SCIENCE AND ISLAM explores the extraordinary circumstances which created this revolution in scientific thinking, the places where they occurred as well as the scientists themselves and their awe-inspiring achievements. It unpacks the debates between scientists, philosophers and t...

A first-hand account - written under a pseudonym - of working on the cutting edge of the global economy. This tale of corporate greed, in which Dover admits to colossal and decadent squanderings of money, explains how how all the warning signs were lost, leading to global carnage.

The last few decades have seen an explosion in the production of critical theories, with deconstructuralists, poststructuralists, second-wave feminists, new historicists, cultural materialists, postcolonialists, black critics and queer theorists, among a host of others, all vying for our attention. The world around us can look very different depending upon the critical theory applied to it. This vast range of interpretations can leave one feel...

As the Cambridge University Boat Club prepared for the 2007 Boat Race, Mark de Rond - a Cambridge don and fellow of Darwin College - spent a year libing the blood, sweat and tears of the 39 students risking all for a chance to challenge Oxford. The Last Amateurs is de Rond's intense and deeply personal account of freezing early-morning training sessions, booze-fuelled crew 'formals', the tenderness of camaraderie, the pain of self-doubt, and t...

Why does time seem to drag when we're bored or in pain, or to go slowly when we're in unfamiliar environments? Why does it slow down dramatically in accidents and emergency situations, when sportspeople are "in the zone', or in higher states of consciousness? MAKING TIME explains why we have these different perceptions of time. It puts forward five basic "laws" of psychological time and uncovers the factors which cause them. It uses evidence f...

In November 2001, Osama Bin Laden proclaimed: 'We love death. The West loves life. That is the big difference between us.' But who is this 'we'? How does someone go from being an unremarkable school-leaver to a human bomb? And how can this transformation, from teenager to terrorist, be detected? Having had his first of many encounters with extremist Islam at university in London in 1989, Russell Razzaque has watched this harrowing conversion f...

Scientists agree that the earth has become hotter over the last century. But on the causes, despite what looks to the public mind like a consensus, there are dissenting voices. Based on Henrik Svensmark's research at the Danish National Space Centre, this book outlines a brilliant and daring new theory that has already provoked fresh thinking on global warming. As prize-winning science writer Nigel Calder and Svensmark himself explain, an inte...

Dawing on declassified material such as MI6's Farm Hall transcripts, coded Soviet messages cracked by American cryptographers and interpretations by Russian scholars of documents from the Soviet archive, Jim Baggott's monumental book spans ten historic years, from the discovery of nuclear fission in 1939 to 'Joe-1', the first Soviet atomic bomb test in August 1949. It includes dramatic episodes such as the episodes such as the sabotage of the ...

The story of one of history's most misunderstood yet rich and fertile periods in science: the extraordinary Islamic scientific revolution between 700 and 1400 AD. This eye-opening, enjoyable book, which complements and builds on the BBC television series, should be essential reading for anyone keen to explore science's hidden history and its contribution to the making of the modern world.

In 1905 Albert Einstein suggested that light was a particle, not a wave, defying two hundred years of experiments. Werner Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and Erwin Schrödinger's infamous dead-or-alive cat are similarly strange. As Niels Bohr said, if you weren't shocked by quantum theory, you didn't really understand it. In 1925 the quantum pioneers nearly all hailed from upper-middle-class academic families, most were German, and their ave...

An accessible introduction to an astonishing and controversial theory explains how chaos makes its presence felt in many varieties of event, from the fluctuation of animal populations to the ups and downs of the stock market.

A beautiful, newly packaged, pocket-sized and cheaper introductory guide to Logic.

A beautiful, newly packaged, pocket-sized and cheaper introductory guide to Buddha.

A beautiful, newly packaged, pocket-sized and cheaper introductory guide to Ethics.

A beautiful, newly packaged, pocket-sized and cheaper introductory guide to Nietzsche.

Presents a narrative history that reveals the roots of modern science in the medieval world. This book debunks many of the myths about the Middle Ages, showing that medieval people did not think the earth is flat, nor did Columbus 'prove' that it is a sphere, the Inquisition burnt nobody for their science nor was Copernicus afraid of persecution.

Using examples from art, film, literature and the lives of famous people, this book explains psychoanalytical thinking, its relevance to everyday life, and its ability to illuminate the nature of human society and culture.

An introduction to mindfulness, a new technique about enjoying the moment.

A comprehensive and enjoyable new biography of the man who created Tintin. Drawing from private archives, exclusive interviews and thousands of hours of research, Raphaël Taylor explores Hergé the man, covering his youth, his controversial life in Nazi-occupied Brussels, his depressive crises, the break-up of his first marriage and the manner in which his later life became a 'practice of philosophy'. For fans, Taylor's painstakingly researched...

Unique graphic introductions to big ideas and thinkers, written by experts in the field.